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8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a person appointed or elected to represent others
verb transfer power to someone
verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
originFrom Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- gelated 9
- gleeted 9
- legated 9
- legatee 8
- eagled 8
- delate 7
- delete 7
- eaglet 7
- elated 7
- gelate 7
- legate 7
- teagle 7